Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 04, 2010

I suspect Tess is in on the plot.

Sure looks that way!

Also…

Virgil Ohso’s liar?

I caught that too, Flight Suit. Guess no one proof reads this mess. Tess has become a Stepford wife, I think…

Or a “Desperate Housewife”.

If I was at a buffet that had all-you-can-eat petifores, I wouldn’t even be thinking about the violin!

How come Phil Harmonic doesn’t recognize his son? Virgil Ohso’s “liar” is a high rise now. A few weeks ago, he was in a ratty old house as I recall. Tess wants Dick to enjoy the buffet…petifors?

Tracy was a cop, one of the best His powers of deduction were put to the test The violin didn’t go through the security scanner Something was in the works, maybe a spanner Exposition was to be the rule of the day So many words with so little to say Tess had no grasp on their reason to be there Maybe it was because of her head of blond hair She and Tracy were putting on the ritz He just couldn’t believe she was such a ditz The story continues to move at its snail pace The plot has long disappeared without any trace

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wndrwrthg, where have you been?

I’m surprised at you, Flight Suit, you have a lot of room to talk about misspelled words… you spelled “petifors” with an “e”. Everyone knows that is is “petifors” without an “e”. Now write it on the blackboard 50 times.

‘Round here, I’ve seen it spelled with and without the e, and I’ve seen it spelled “petite fours.” I just didn’t give enough of a bleep to remind myself which one was correct.

Hi Margueritem, sorry for the delayed response. I have had an attack of the punies lately, just a slight illness, enough to knock me off my feed. As Monty Python would say “I’m getting better”. Wish I could say the same for this strip.

It’s LAIR not LIAR. Sigh…

wndrwrthg. back, concise, and in great form.

The sort of updated overview Locher should read. Although I’d qualify the first line with “once one of the best” and consider personalizing the spanner with “a Naperville spanner” ;)

Not that it would help *..* I’m sure he fortifies himself with iron clad denial.

Macy notices that the Strad didn’t get scanned. Hmmm…… I wonder if their body scanner picked up that hogleg he’s toting inside his jacket? Maybe they’ve got those full-body scanners and they were “distracted” when Tess went through. Woof! Woof!

Plus flightsuit isn’t getting paid to publish something 75 people might read

I’m with barticle35. Tess has poisoned the petifors, a plot to purloin the policeman’s pension and marry Pat Patton. (My ‘pologies for the poor phrasing.)

I think this Locher guy should just throw it in, and they should rerun the whole strip back from the 1940’s. I’d enjoy that a lot more. This is like watching an old friend die a “long, slow, boring, miserable death, like the English Patient’s girlfriend.”

And why didn’t the violin go through the scanner? Did I miss something? Are they still trying to jam the cello through it?

Locher has certainly built this plot with Swiss cheese hole assumptions. Like it was certain, the Stradivarious would get to the Embassy (and then, be right “beside” the Ambassador when the bomb exploded) - to justify the Two million dollar investment.

Seems Virgil failed to do his “homework”, why, even young Harmonic knew and said … “The Ambassador likes American Rock, we gotta be good !”. Odds were the Embassy would have IN, a Rock Band, not a String Quartette which with a $2 million violin (bet), seemed more of a hope-on-a-prayer, flukey “assisination” route.

Locher painted the whole landscape with many options but the “route” he selected seemed the least “certain”.Better to have chanced rigging a guitar and save the money..

So Locher, what with “clumsy” effort to move Tracy around to be “there”, seems a hopelessly confused Writer. He even appears to have assigned story names incorrectly, “Virgil” would more appropriately have been “fitted” with “Ludwig” (given the 12-10-09 indiscretion). Phil Harmonic’s role more in “tune” (forgive the pun) with the “Virtuoso” moniker and sonny coming on stage as “Low Note” - refecting his propensity for theft.

It all reminds me of recent addled contributions here, intelectually flavored perhaps, but not unlike the Author in seemingly selecting - the wrong holes in the confusion of a Swiss Cheese dilema.

Seems too … Brozman has FIVE strings on the Violin again today (panel 1). Working too fast ?

Hope no one calls me a liar

A Speedy Gonzales kind of thing ? “Wham! Wham! Thank you Mam … Wham! Wham! Sorry Sam! (?)

Sydney, what you think is a fifth string is actually the shadow from the fourth string.

Our view of shadows from strings 1 through 3 are blocked by strings 2 through 4.

See? I have what it takes to appreciate Locher’s Tracy: Psychotic Rationalization!

Tribune Company , why don’t you drop Dick Tracy instead of Get Fuzzy and the others you will no longer be publishing in your paper?

Tess looks - mouth opening, more interested in the food Pot than the Plot by assasian Ohso Polpot

And Anthony 2816, I thought it was the shadow of the DOTY guy but he’s now jumped in. I guess you’re just indirectly giving him the old “mamaguy,” and he’s chosen not to recognize it as such.

Check the “meaning” of that Trinidad word on the MSN Encarta Dictionary.

More seriously if the visable 5th string is a shadow of the 4th, where are the shadows of the other three ? Are you going to tell me directly under each suceeding string ?

Most unlikely, from an artist as careless as Brozman has proven to be. He even got the word “LAIR” wrong today, unless Doty thinks it’s “shadow” looks like “LIAR” (? ;)

If you look at the neck above the hand, it seems there are only four strings plus the two edges. However, the edge line seems to take a jump to the left somewhere under his hand, because I can’t make a continuous line through his hand So I’d say it’s really hard to tell what exactly is going on with the violin strings.

I believe he is being cute with musical term “”liar” which is used to hold your music in a marching band.

MYankeeClipper said, “I believe he is being cute with musical term “”liar” which is used to hold your music in a marching band.”

I thought that was a lyre.